“If we agree on something, then no matter how painful these decisions may be, we must implement them ... If not, we must know about it. I have already told our deputies that if they take this seriously, then we take a third of the budget from pensions, salaries, medical insurance, transfer it to mobilization and to our army, and try to protect ourselves without a peace process. All these options are in front of the Ukrainian people, ”“ Country.ua ”quotes him.
According to him, it is the Ukrainian government that should offer the people the best solutions to the current situation.
Along with this, he noted that "this Steinmeier formula was invented and agreed upon by the governments, and it differs from what Ukraine agreed to earlier."
Earlier, a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Servant of the People faction, Marina Bardina, said that Steinmeier’s formula for resolving the situation in Donbass would not be implemented in the near future.
On October 1, all participants in the contact group for resolving the situation in eastern Ukraine at a meeting in Minsk agreed on Steinmeier’s formula.
Later, thousands of people gathered in the center of Kiev to protest against the signing by the country's authorities of the Steinmeier formula.